My Spouse and I Started a Business. But One Fatal Flaw Has Brought Us to Disaster.

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Don’t Have to Be the Boss: Take a big risk in entering into a new business partnership and making it as long as you did.

For the past seven years , I've been a top performer with outstanding evaluations.

I genuinely thought we had a good relationship full of trust and empathy.

I will always have some annoying quirks that I cannot control, e.g., talking fast, fidgeting, jumping around topics, being impulsive, etc. I thought my relationship with Susan was such that she would give me the benefit of the doubt.

Everything she said brought me back to a lot of traumatic childhood experiences in school, including bullying.

To Ghost or Not to Ghost: Do I just tell them I cannot be their friend anymore? And how? You could first try setting some clear boundaries with this former colleague.

If your former colleague honors your boundaries, I don't see why you can't still be friends.

But if they keep carping about work after you’ve told them explicitly not to, then you can distance yourself.